Museum Shop Sunday exists to promote the unique items you can find in museum shops and to support the heritage sector during this difficult year.

The selection below is just a glimpse into the wonderful museum shop items available for children, and for bigger kids, this year. You can browse more items by searching the hashtag #MuseumShopSunday. Many museums are also offering discounts this Sunday (29 November), so there’s a good chance of finding a bargain.

Happy shopping!

Kids in Museums Christmas Gift Guide

Natural History Museum

A personalised Triceratops T-shirt that will give your little monster their own dinosaur name.

An orange t-shirt with a cartoon dinosaur and the name 'Robinosaurus'

Roald Dahl Museum

The Roald Dahl Museum shop might just be the golden ticket for bookworms. Test your Dahl knowledge with this customised Monopoly game.

Science Museum

Build your own water robot and learn about solar-hybrid power with this fascinating Aqua Robot Kit – one of many creative kits from the Science Museum.

A picture of the aqua robot box and the completed robot with googly eyes and orange cogs for fins.

Bristol Museums

Kids can discover and colour the stars, planets and spacecraft in our solar system with this fun colour-in space pencil case with washable ink pens.

National Museums Scotland

Find the perfect stocking filler with this great selection of festive socks from National Museums Scotland.

A pair of socks lying flat and decorated to look like toy soldiers.

Ditchling Museum of Art+ Craft

Learn how to create beautiful handwriting over the Christmas break with this book on the basics of calligraphy.

London Transport Museum

If you’re missing getting out and about in London, bring the iconic big red bus into your house with this wooden ride on bus.

A young child sat on a red wooden bus.

Kettle’s Yard

Children can build and colour in their own art gallery with this kit, complete with staff, café and masterpieces! No scissors or glue needed.

National Trust

A gift that keeps on giving all year round. Why not gift a Junior National Trust membership?

A family (amn, woman and young girl in the middle) crouch and look up at a Christmas tree at Knole in Kent.

Visitors admiring a Christmas tree at Knole, Kent ©National Trust Images/James Dobson

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

If your family has been enjoying the great outdoors during lockdown, these foraging cards are the perfect gift for a young nature lover.